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    Another Year Pig Producers Would Prefer to Forget?

    Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 18 February 2016
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    Feed Grains Markets Grow in a Shrinking World

    Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 29 October 2015
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    Role of Dietary Fibre in Diets for Growing Pigs - Part 2

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 11 September 2015
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    Optimising nutritional efficiency has become more of a challenge as modern feed formulations contain more sources of fibre, so Zhimin Huang and colleagues from the University of Minnesota produced this report looking at improvements in artificial feed digestibility measurements.

    Field Testing a Filter for Disease Control on Pig Transport Trailers

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 28 August 2015
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    Evaluation of a prototype air filtration system installed on a transport trailer showed that the use of selected microbial filters can effectively capture bioaerosols and prevent entry into the interior or the trailer, report Bernardo Predicala, Alvin Alvarado and Samantha Ekanayake of the Prairie Swine Centre in Canada in the Centre's latest Annual Report.

    New Advances in Co-products in Animal Feed

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 21 August 2015
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    Wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (wDDGS) is a promising type of crop co-product which can be used in animal feed.

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    November 2013

    Intensive and Integrated Farm Systems Using Fermentation of Swine Effluent in Brazil

    Husbandry Environmental management Herd management
    calendar icon 14 November 2013
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    In a report for the FAO, I. Bergier, E. Soriano, G. Wiedman and A. Kososki outline a project in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in which pig manure is used in a biodigester, producing power, fertiliser for food crops and wood/paper as well as biochar. The project is an example of biotechnology being employed for sustainable agriculture.

    USDA Initiates Programme for Pork Never Fed Beta-agonists

    Markets Industry and legislation Product quality and safety
    calendar icon 13 November 2013
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    Antibiotic Resistance: Killer Virus to the Rescue?

    Husbandry Industry and legislation Product quality and safety
    calendar icon 13 November 2013
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    Portuguese Distributor for Absolute Swine Catheters

    Genetics and reproduction Research and innovation Feed and nutrition
    calendar icon 13 November 2013
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    Investigation of Resistance to Beta-lactam Antimicrobials among Staphylococci Isolated from Pigs with Exudative Epidermitis

    Disease Husbandry Market Trends
    calendar icon 13 November 2013
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    This Canadian work suggests that methicillin resistance may be passed from one species of Staphylococcus to another, including to S. hyicus in pigs, leading the researchers to raise concerns about the spread of serious multi-drug resistance in food-producing animals.

    Identification of Post-mortem Indicators of Welfare of Finishing Pigs on the Day of Slaughter

    Disease Pig Welfare Processing
    calendar icon 13 November 2013
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    The concentrations of lactate and glucose, together with creatine kinase activity, were found to be relevant indicators for the welfare of finishing pigs at the slaughterhouse, according to Danish researchers.

    PED-Positive Submissions: Another Jump in Positive Case Count

    calendar icon 12 November 2013
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